Deputy Director of Quality and Safety
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and inspirational senior leader to join Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust as Deputy Director of Quality and Safety. Reporting to the Director of Nursing, Professions and Quality, the post holder will provide strategic leadership across patient safety, learning from deaths, safeguarding, patient experience, complaints and PALS, clinical governance, CQC compliance and regulatory assurance. This is a pivotal leadership role providing expert advice to the Trust Board and Executive Team, ensuring the organisation delivers safe, effective and high-quality services and maintains robust assurance regarding quality and safety. We are seeking a highly credible leader with substantial NHS experience, strong strategic capability, exceptional influencing skills and a demonstrable track record of improving quality and safety outcomes.
Closing date: 16 July 2026
Main duties of the job
The Deputy Director of Quality and Safety is responsible for providing strategic leadership, professional expertise and operational oversight across the Trust’s quality governance and patient safety agenda. The post holder will ensure effective governance systems are in place to provide assurance regarding patient safety, safeguarding, learning from deaths, patient experience, complaints management, clinical governance and regulatory compliance.
- Head of Patient Safety
- Head of Safeguarding
- Head of Patient Experience
- Complaints and PALS Manager
- Learning from Deaths Lead
- Head of Clinical Governance
- Regulatory Compliance Lead
Job responsibilities
- Lead the Trust-wide quality and safety agenda and advise the Board and Executive Team on quality and safety risks.
- Senior leadership for PSIRF, oversight of incident investigations, duty of candour and organisational learning, monitoring of patient safety risks and trends.
- Senior leadership of mortality governance, oversight of reviews of unexpected deaths, suicides and deaths requiring further scrutiny, assurance regarding learning and implementation of actions.
- Senior management lead for safeguarding adults and children, oversight of safeguarding reviews, training and governance.
- Strategic leadership for patient engagement and co-production, oversight of patient feedback and experience intelligence.
- Oversight of complaints handling and learning, assurance of compliance with NHS complaints regulations.
- Leadership of governance frameworks, committee structures and board assurance systems, oversight of governance reporting and policy management.
- Lead inspection readiness, coordinate responses to inspections and external reviews, maintain compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.
- Lead Trust suicide prevention arrangements, monitor Prevention of Future Death actions and inquest learning.
Knowledge and skills
- Evidence of working with service users, carers and/or families to improve the quality of services through coproduction.
- Understanding of Quality Improvement methodologies.
- Evidence of managing safeguarding within a portfolio and clear understanding of the relevant legal and statutory NHS requirements.
Training and qualifications
- Registered healthcare professional.
- Masters Degree or equivalent experience.
Experience
- Significant senior NHS leadership experience.
- Patient safety and PSIRF implementation.
- Learning from deaths governance.
Other
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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